'BJP proud of many PM candidates, not just yuvraj

September 30, 2011 13:58

So, Narendra Modi is not attending the BJP conclave.

BJP leaders today downplayed the absence of the Gujarat Chief Minister at the party's national executive committee meeting, saying there is no infighting in the party. "Infighting is there in the Congress and not in our party," senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi said here when asked about Modi's absence from the meeting.

Modi's absence from the crucial meeting comes in the backdrop of talks of differences between him and senior party leader L K Advani. Modi had reportedly even told Advani that the yatra is "unnecessary and irrelevant".

The BJP also said it had many prime ministerial candidates, instead of just one yuvraj (implying of course, Rahul Gandhi).

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